different between remonstrance vs punishment

English

Etymology

From Middle French remonstrance (French remontrance).

Noun

remonstrance (countable and uncountable, plural remonstrances)

1. A remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, objection or protest.
   • 2004, Perry Link, "China: A new postmortem on Tiananmen," Time, 15 March:

     In the past, emperors based their right to rule mostly on heredity and so could listen to remonstrance from below without necessarily feeling that legitimacy was at stake.

Related terms

• remonstrate
• remonstration

Translations

Middle French

Noun

remonstrance f (plural remonstrances)

1. remonstration; remonstrance

English

Etymology

From Middle English punishement, punyschment, punyschement, ponyshemente, from Old French punissement, from punir (“to punish”), synchronically equivalent to punish +? -ment. Compare the English nouns punishing and punition.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n??m?nt/
• Hyphenation: pun?ish?ment

Noun

punishment (countable and uncountable, plural punishments)

1. The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.

2. A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.

3. A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
4. (figuratively) Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling

Synonyms

• castigation
• punition
• beating

Antonyms

• reward

Hyponyms

• retribution
• corporal punishment
• mirror punishment

Derived terms

• brute for punishment

Related terms

• punishable
• punisher
• punishing
• punitive
• impunity

Translations

See also

• telishment

Anagrams

• unshipment